Unfortunately it didn't work in Firefox and IE during its first weekend of release and got downvoted a bunch. It turned out our servers needed a proper MIME-Type response for .ogg and .m4a files, otherwise Firefox and IE blocked it. That's been fixed now so PLAY!

I've already got my pumpkin carving concept ready, I'm just waiting for a closer date so that I don't carve it too early and it goes messy by Halloween.
I'm not gonna tell you what it is, but lets just say it's something very classic with regards to NG/

sweet, I'm getting tired of the Flash platform. also Firefox uses ogg, and not mp3, mp3 is a patent riddled format while ogg was designed to be patent free, same thing with mp4 and H.264 and H.263+, plus Vorbis is superior to MPEG-2 Audio Layer III in terms of compression, and performance, and Theora is a lot less cpu intensive than both H.264 and H.263+, so much so that hardware acceleration might not be necessary, also, I'm well aware of the MIME-Type response problem, when I made an HTML5 based ogg player so I could finally ditch flash on my site, fortunately Firefox 16 now supports the application/x-ogg MIME-Type as well as the audio/ogg, also Firefox tends to follow standards more closely than other browsers and the HTML5 standard says the server response overrides the 'type' attribute in the audio and video tags, not the other way around, so fixing the server response is not optional, the 'type' attribute is just fallback, the reason the HTML5 standard has it like this is to prevent security issues from outside HTML code, there is an addon for Firefox to force the MIME-Type for the client side, it was created because some servers return the wrong MIME-Type.

At 10/18/12 04:23 PM, Saminat wrote:
So, we carve our pumpkin and take a picture of it. Do we make it a regular art submission or something? How do we upload it and tag it?

I'm gonna post a contest thread where you can upload a photo OR link your Art Portal entry, if you want to submit it there. If you submit it to the Art Portal, tag is "pumpkin2012"... I'll have to make a note of that in the contest thread. :)

At 10/18/12 05:20 PM, TomFulp wrote:
Think of it as a challenge for all the people who have said HTML5 will be the death of Flash - now they can go head to head!

I never understood that point. I mean, maybe HTML5 can make interactive content -- it may be better than flash for web design. However, you can't make a full fledged cartoon with HTML. Or as far as I know, there's no application called HTML that allows you to draw frames and whatnot.

If HTML5 cuts into the business of flash's web design, then they can simply target the animators and, to an extent, game designers who use it more.

I'm sure they could even adapt flash for HTML5 output or integrate it. But I'm far from a coder so I probably have very minimal knowledge of that sector of it. I'm just an animator.